Well, that does it. I used to support social services for people that couldn't afford them. But if every single person using them is exactly like this person The Sun made up to infuriate me, there's no way I can support them now.

No way this happened, it has to be a lie. No one would ever take advantage of social services like that. They know that the money used for such things comes from their fellow, hard-working citizens, and never abuse the program in such a way.

Phineas:No way this happened, it has to be a lie. No one would ever take advantage of social services like that. They know that the money used for such things comes from their fellow, hard-working citizens, and never abuse the program in such a way.

born_yesterday:Well, that does it. I used to support social services for people that couldn't afford them. But if every single person using them is exactly like this person The Sun made up to infuriate me, there's no way I can support them now.

Even if it were true, so what? So a few people abuse the system. That doesn't invalidate the millions it helps legitimately every year. That doesn't lessen the positive impact it has on the community.

It seems the main problem conservatives have with social programs always boils down to sour grapes."WAAHH. Someone who doesn't make as much as me is getting the same access to health care as I do! WAAHHHH! I wanna be SPECIAL and have the system treat me BETTER than other people!"

If a poor person gets a free bologna sandwich, that doesn't make your filet mignon any less delicious, juicy, or expensive. It also doesn't make the poor person's back-breaking, low-paying job any more cushy than your high-paying, sit-on-your-ass-all-day job.

ZeroCorpse:Even if it were true, so what? So a few people abuse the system. That doesn't invalidate the millions it helps legitimately every year. That doesn't lessen the positive impact it has on the community.

Like the woman whose son turned 18, so she got pregnant so she could stay on welfare.That's not just abuse of the system, it's child abuse.

ZeroCorpse:Even if it were true, so what? So a few people abuse the system. That doesn't invalidate the millions it helps legitimately every year. That doesn't lessen the positive impact it has on the community.

It seems the main problem conservatives have with social programs always boils down to sour grapes."WAAHH. Someone who doesn't make as much as me is getting the same access to health care as I do! WAAHHHH! I wanna be SPECIAL and have the system treat me BETTER than other people!"

If a poor person gets a free bologna sandwich, that doesn't make your filet mignon any less delicious, juicy, or expensive. It also doesn't make the poor person's back-breaking, low-paying job any more cushy than your high-paying, sit-on-your-ass-all-day job.

You libs just don't get it, do you?

You see, some of us work for a living, and pay for our own healthcare, and that healthcare is just not as good if poors can have it too.

udhq:ZeroCorpse: Even if it were true, so what? So a few people abuse the system. That doesn't invalidate the millions it helps legitimately every year. That doesn't lessen the positive impact it has on the community.

It seems the main problem conservatives have with social programs always boils down to sour grapes."WAAHH. Someone who doesn't make as much as me is getting the same access to health care as I do! WAAHHHH! I wanna be SPECIAL and have the system treat me BETTER than other people!"

If a poor person gets a free bologna sandwich, that doesn't make your filet mignon any less delicious, juicy, or expensive. It also doesn't make the poor person's back-breaking, low-paying job any more cushy than your high-paying, sit-on-your-ass-all-day job.

You libs just don't get it, do you?

You see, some of us work for a living, and pay for our own healthcare, and that healthcare is just not as good if poors can have it too.

Not tomention taht those "free bologna sandwiches" are now costing us approx a trillion dallrs a year (fed and state combined) second only to combined social security and medicare (not means tested) and more than defense.

For the past two decades, means-tested welfare or aid to the poor has been the fastest-growing component of government spending, outstripping the combined growth of Medicare and Social Security spending, as well as the growth in education and defense spending. Over the 20-year period between FY 1989 and FY 2008, total means-tested spending increased by 292 percent. The increase in combined Social Security and Medicare spending was 213 percent over the same period.Means-tested spending on cash, food, and housing increased more rapidly (196 percent) than Social Security (174 percent). The growth in means-tested medical spending (448 percent) exceeded the growth in Medicare (376 percent).